Jack London became my favourite writer from his first books I'd read. First of all I got interested in Jack London as a personality. His life story struck me not less than his works. What a man! He was strong and talented. He lived a life of adventures and hardships, so he knew what he was writing about. In his novel Martin Iden he describes his biography. What a hard life he lived!
Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876. From his childhood he suffered greatly. He changed a lot of jobs: selling out newspapers, working at the factory. He hated that kind of job, which exhausted people and made them suffer physically and morally.
Young Jack had no opportunity to go to school, so he studied privately reading much at night.
"Learning strategies"
Education - is cyclical and cumulative process of constant renewal and expansion of a piggy bank of your knowledge. The purpose of education - to change your behavior so that you can be more successful. Education - is a process of constant transformation of the individual. It is useful to distinguish between conscious and unconscious learning training. The first is usually called learning through education, and the second - learning from experience. Conscious training is usually more successful and develop better capacity than realized, because it provides more control over the process. For this reason, you need to understand your personal aspirations (the image of the personality and beliefs about themselves). People who have not done so, learn less well. On the other hand, unconscious training is cyclical. Here experience is gained through activities - activities that provide new knowledge. This form of training is also very important, as evidenced by the following data:
after you read something, you remember 10%;
after you hear something, you remember 20%;
once you see something, you remember 30%;
after something you have seen and heard, you'll remember 50%;
after you do it yourself, you'll remember 90%;
In short, the optimal learning occurs when people are able to act.